Jeanette Shehy's Library
Rossview High
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780062872340 | The Hate U Give Collector's Edition: A Printz Honor Winner | Angie Thomas | This collector’s edition of the acclaimed, award-winning novel contains a letter from the author, the meanings behind the names in the book, a map of Garden Heights, fan art, the full, original story that inspired the book, and an excerpt from On the Come Up.8 starred reviews · Goodreads Choice Awards Best of the Best · William C. Morris Award Winner · National Book Award Longlist · Printz Honor Book · Coretta Scott King Honor Book · #1 New York Times Bestseller!"Absolutely riveting!" —Jason Reynolds"Stunning." —John Green"This story is necessary. This story is important." —Kirkus (starred review)"Heartbreakingly topical." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)"A marvel of verisimilitude." —Booklist (starred review)"A powerful, in-your-face novel." —Horn Book (starred review)Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.Want more of Garden Heights? Catch Maverick and Seven’s story in Concrete Rose, Angie Thomas's powerful prequel to The Hate U Give. | Balzer + Bray |
| 9780425232200 | The Help | Stockett, Kathryn | be Prepared To Meet Three Unforgettable Women:twenty-two-year-old Skeeter Has Just Returned Home After Graduating From Ole Miss. She May Have A Degree, But It Is 1962, Mississippi, And Her Mother Will Not Be Happy Till Skeeter Has A Ring On Her Finger. Skeeter Would Normally Find Solace With Her Beloved Maid Constantine, The Woman Who Raised Her, But Constantine Has Disappeared And No One Will Tell Skeeter Where She Has Gone.aibileen Is A Black Maid, A Wise, Regal Woman Raising Her Seventeenth White Child. Something Has Shifted Inside Her After The Loss Of Her Own Son, Who Died While His Bosses Looked The Other Way. She Is Devoted To The Little Girl She Looks After, Though She Knows Both Their Hearts May Be Broken.minny, Aibileen's Best Friend, Is Short, Fat, And Perhaps The Sassiest Woman In Mississippi. She Can Cook Like Nobody's Business, But She Can't Mind Her Tongue, So She's Lost Yet Another Job. Minny Finally Finds A Position Working For Someone Too New To Town...the Washington Post - Sybil Steinbergsouthern Whites' Guilt For Not Expressing Gratitude To The Black Maids Who Raised Them Threatens To Become A Familiar Refrain. But Don't Tell Kathryn Stockett Because Her First Novel Is A Nuanced Variation On The Theme That Strikes Every Note With Authenticity. In A Page-turner That Brings New Resonance To The Moral Issues Involved, She Spins A Story Of Social Awakening As Seen From Both Sides Of The American Racial Divide. | Berkley |
| 9780439023528 | The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. | Scholastic Inc. |
| The Hunger Games (DVD) | ||||
| The Hunting Party | ||||
| The Mummy (DVD) | ||||
| The New Harvard Dictionary Of Music | ||||
| The Novels Of Charles Dickens | ||||
| 9781593080099 | The Odyssey (Barnes & Noble Classics) | Homer | &&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LI&&RThe Odyssey&&L/I&&R, by &&LB&&RHomer&&L/B&&R, is part of the &&LI&&R&&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I&&R &&L/I&&Rseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I&&R: &&LDIV&&R New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholarsBiographies of the authorsChronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural eventsFootnotes and endnotesSelective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the workComments by other famous authorsStudy questions to challenge the readers viewpoints and expectationsBibliographies for further readingIndices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics &&L/I&&Rpulls together a constellation of influences―biographical, historical, and literary―to enrich each readers understanding of these enduring works.&&L/DIV&&R&&L/DIV&&R&&L/DIV&&R&&LDIV&&R &&L/DIV&&R&&LDIV&&RLong before &&LI&&RThe Lord of the Rings&&L/I&&R, &&LI&&RStar Wars&&L/I&&R, and Harry Potter, the ancient Greek poet &&LB&&RHomer&&L/B&&R established the standard for tales of epic quests and heroic journeys with &&LI&&RThe Odyssey&&L/I&&R. Crowded with characters, both human and non-human, and bursting with action, &&LI&&RThe Odyssey&&L/I&&R details the adventures of Odysseus, king of Ithaca and hero of the Trojan War, as he struggles to return to his home and his waiting, ever-faithful wife, Penelope. &&LP&&RAlong the way he encounters the seductive Circe, who changes men into swine; the gorgeous water-nymph, Calypso, who keeps him a “prisoner of love” for seven years; the terrible, one-eyed, man-eating giant Cyclops; and a host of other ogres, wizards, sirens, and gods. But when he finally reaches Ithaca after ten years of travel, his trials have only begun. There he must battle the scheming noblemen who, thinking him dead, have demanded that Penelope choose one of them to be her new husband―and Ithaca’s new king. &&L/P&&R&&LP&&ROften called the “second work of Western literature” (The Iliad, also by Homer, being the first), &&LI&&RThe Odyssey&&L/I&&R is not only a rousing adventure drama, but also a profound meditation on courage, loyalty, family, fate, and undying love. More than three thousand years old, it was the first story to delineate carefully and exhaustively a single character arc ― a narrative structure that serves as the foundation and heart of the modern novel. Robert Squillace’s revision of George Herbert Palmer’s classic prose translation captures the drama and vitality of adventure, while remaining true to the original Homeric language.&&L/P&&R&&LP&&R&&LB&&RRobert Squillace&&L/B&&R teaches in the Cultural Foundations division of New York University’s General Studies Program. He has published numerous essays on literature and the book Modernism, Modernity and Arnold Bennett. &&L/P&&R&&L/DIV&&R&&L/DIV&&R | Barnes & Noble Classics |
| The Odyssey (DVD) | ||||
| 9780142407332 | The Outsiders | S. E. Hinton | The Outsiders is a book that delves deeply into the hearts, minds, and stories of a group that had no voice before S. E. Hinton gave them one. She began writing the book at age 15, spurred on by the disturbing trend she saw growing in her high school towards division between groups. I was worried and angered by the social situation, Hinton writes. I saw two groups at the extreme ends of the social scale behaving in an idiotic fashion -- one group was being condemned and one wasn't.... When a friend of mine was beaten up for no other reason than that some people didn't like the way he combed his hair, I took my anger out by writing about it. Thirty years after it was first published, The Outsiders still carries the same frightening and unifying messages for teens (and readers of all ages). The ruthlessly realistic and violent story of the Greasers and the Socs, rival gangs from very different sides of the railroad tracks, is narrated by Ponyboy Curtis, a smart, sensitive kid who has grown to become one of the most recognizable figures in the history of young adult literature. Any teen who has ever felt isolated or different can identify with Ponyboy, a kid forced to be tough on the outside, but who underneath is just as scared and needy as anyone. Hinton herself has said that she has never written a character as close to her own self as Ponyboy is. Young Adult fiction was shaped and defined by Susan Eloise Hinton, and the realism she attached to the genre became the norm, enabling later writers like Robert Cormier and Judy Blume to find characters and voices that actually spoke to adolescents. Since 1967, Ponyboy has become the hero for countless teenagers nationwide as The Outsiders stands to influence an entire new legion of adolescents who need Ponyboy as much as ever. | Viking Books for Young Readers |
| 9781423101482 | The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Three: Titan's Curse | Rick Riordan | When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped. And now it’s up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is powerful enough to kidnap a goddess? They must find Artemis before the winter solstice, when her influence on the Olympian Council could swing an important vote on the war with the titans. Not only that, but first Percy will have to solve the mystery of a rare monster that Artemis was hunting when she disappeared—a monster rumored to be so powerful it could destroy Olympus forever. | Hyperion |
| 9781423103349 | The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Two: Sea of Monsters | Rick Riordan | Percy and his friends battle to save Camp Half-Blood, which is on the verge of being overrun by mythological monsters. | Disney Press |
| 9780618129119 | The Return Of The King (The Lord Of The Rings, Part 3) | Tolkien, J.R.R. | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 9780312446499 | The Scarlet Letter (Bedford College Editions) | Nathaniel Hawthorne | This volume presents the authoritative Centenary Edition text of Hawthorne's classic novel. The text and essays are complemented by biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. This second edition includes five new critical essays and a selection of cultural documents and illustrations. | Bedford |
| 9780670894604 | The Secret Life Of Bees | Kidd, Sue Monk | Set In South Carolina In 1964, [this Book] Tells The Story Of Lily Owens, Whose Life Has Been Shaped Around The Blurred Memory Of The Afternoon Her Mother Was Killed. When Lily's Fierce-hearted Stand-in Mother, Rosaleen, Insults Three Of The Town's Fiercest Racists, Lily Decides They Should Both Escape To Tiburon, South Carolina--a Town That Holds The Secret To Her Mother's Past. There They Are Taken In By An Eccentric Trio Of Black Beekeeping Sisters Who Introduce Lily To A Mesmerizing World Of Bees, Honey, And The Black Madonna Who Presides Over Their Household. This Is A Remarkable Story About Divine Female Power And The Transforming Power Of Love--a Story That Women Will Share And Pass On To Their Daughters For Years To Come.-back Cover. Sue Monk Kidd. | Viking Adult |
| 9780062060624 | The Song Of Achilles: A Novel | Miller, Madeline | Achilles, "the best of all the Greeks," son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful— irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the gods' wrath. They are trained by the centaur Chiron in the arts of war and medicine, but when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, all the heroes of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little do they know that the cruel Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice. Winner of the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction | Ecco |
| 9780316122399 | The Statistical Probability Of Love At First Sight | Jennifer E. Smith | Now a NETFLIX feature film starring Haley Lu Richardson!Timing is everything in this romantic novel about family connections, second chances, and first loves. Set over a twenty-four-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver find that true love can be found in unexpected places.Today should be one of the worst days of Hadley Sullivan's life. Having just missed her flight, she's stuck at the airport and late to her father's wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon-to-be stepmother Hadley's never even met. Then she happens upon the perfect boy in the airport's cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he's British, and he's sitting in her row....A long night on the plane passes in the blink of an eye, and Hadley and Oliver lose track of each other in the airport chaos upon arrival. Can fate intervene to bring them together once more? | Poppy |
| 9780553496680 | The Sun Is Also A Star | Yoon, Nicola | Natasha Is A Girl Who Believes In Science And Facts. Daniel Has Always Been A Good Son And Good Student. But When He Sees Natasha He Forgets All That And Believes There Is Something Extraordinary In Store For Both Of Them. Nicola Yoon. Includes An Excerpt From Yoon's Book Everything, Everything. | Delacorte Press |
| 9780673609878 | The Time Machine | Fay Robinson |